Define your genre in five words or less:
Callahan, Cave, Wilco inside a blender.
So, someone is walking past as you guys are playing, they then go get a beer and tell their friend about you… what do they say?
They’d utter to their friends awkwardly, “That dudes got a big moustache aye.”
Friend says, “Yep, and a pink guitar…”
“Hey. Did you see Australia’s Got Talent this week?”
Friend says, ”What are you insinuating, John? That I’m a fuckwit?”
Needless to say another friendship goes down the toilet incited by horrible TV.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
I’m a people and ‘thing’ watcher and love to romanticise about relationships between inanimate objects. A defined footprint embedded in a lovely patch of white sand or a redundant cigarette lighter next to a burned out house turns me on.
What do you think a band has to do these days to succeed?
Succeed? Oh, Success…Yes I remember wasting a lot of time wondering about that…A band should try to stay best mates for as long as they can and have as much fun as they can possibly muster with shows they perform. Take the ‘ego’ out of your personality and dropkick the bastard into the sea. Also, make sure you have a clear definition of what ‘Success’ means. For me it’s never been money, fame and what not…which is great as I don’t have either of those things.
And what makes you unhappiest about what you’re doing?
The constant need to create for songwriters can be tough to say the least when you look at the alluring pressure from day jobs, limited moneys to use for your art and the amount of hard work and years of repetition as far as performing your songs and maintaining a great band to assist you in performing them. Generally speaking though, I’m a happy man, I mean I hate the world and all that stuff…but I’m happy.
Tell us about the last song you wrote.
It’s called, Get a Girl To Love Me in a Week. It’s a sardonic nod to people who obsess over self-help topics and rarely see the beauty and charm in a opportunistic moment worth capturing. Crikey that sounds wanky yeah?
When’s the gig and with who?
Sunday December 16 at the “rare and reclusive, oft neglected, lesser Spotted Mallard” in Brunswick with Sabrina and the Red Vans and Little Wise! Very excited to see both of these groups!
